Summary The police personnel came under fire in the Killi Jamalabad area while providing security to the polio vaccination team.
QUETTA (Dunya News) - Two policeman guarding a polio vaccination team was martyred in a gun attack by unidentified assailants in in Noshki district of Balochistan on Tuesday.
According to security sources, the police personnel came under fire in the Killi Jamalabad area while providing security to the polio vaccination team.
The bodies of the martyred policemen were shifted to Noshki Teaching Hospital.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi strongly condemned the attack and expressed grief over the deaths of police personnel Muhammad Yasir and Abdul Rauf.
Naqvi said attacking a team working to protect the future of children was a “heinous and unforgivable” act, adding that those responsible deserved punishment.
Balochistan government adviser on home affairs Babar Yousafzai also condemned the attack, describing it as an assault on the future of children in the province.
He said that Fitna al-Hindustan was an enemy of peace and the future of children in Balochistan. He said such elements did not want peace and development in the province or an end to diseases.
